Books

The following poetry-related publications by Michael Dylan Welch are listed in chronological order, with the most recent first. This list does not include dozens of trifolds or broadsides I’ve also published, nor any of the 200+ trade books I’ve edited as a professional editor. It also does not include haiku and tanka books by other authors that I’ve edited and published with my press, Press Here, or the many publications I’ve designed and produced for Two Autumns Press.

True Colour. Redmond, Washington: City of Redmond, 2014. Collection of thirteen solo rengay, each one on the theme of a different colour. Book design and photography by Dan D Shafer. Read the introduction and afterword.

Close to the Wind: 2013 Haiku North America Conference Anthology. Editor with William Hart. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, 2013. Nearly 100 haiku and senryu from this twelfth biennial haiku conference. Read the introduction, and order from CreateSpace.

With Cherries on Top: 31 Flavors from NaHaiWriMo. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, 2012. A wide-ranging collection of 190 haiku and senryu by 79 contributors to the August 2012 National Haiku Writing Month page on Facebook. Includes fireworks photographs by editor Michael Dylan Welch. Free PDF download. See brief Frogpond review.

Furoshiki. [Japanese cover shown to the right] (cotranslation with Emiko Miyashita of poems and

prose about elegant Japanese gift-wrapping cloths known as furoshiki) Tokyo: PIE Books, 2011.

(cotranslation with Emiko Miyashita of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) Tokyo, Japan: PIE Books, 2008. (See the Japan Times revew by David Burleigh.) Also available, with photographs, poems, a karuta card game, and each poem read aloud in Japanese by male and female voices, as an iPad and iPhone application on iTunes. ++

Countdown. (editor, 2000 Haiku Poets of Northern California members’ haiku anthology on the theme of the millennium and the New Year) San Francisco: Two Autumns Press, 2000. Read the book’s introduction.

Fig Newtons: Senryu to Go. (editor, and one of seven contributing poets—a collection of senryu) Foster City, California: Press Here, 1993. [winner of a Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America]

The Gulf Within. (coeditor with Christopher Herold of anthology of Gulf War haiku) San Francisco: Two Autumns Press, 1991.

Books for the Conscientious Publisher. (an annotated bibliography of books relating to desktop publishing, graphic design, typography, editing, and writing, produced in conjunction with a seminar on desktop publishing haiku books that I gave at the first Haiku North America conference). Foster City, California, privately published, 1991.

Poems and essays are also included in numerous anthologies from W. W. Norton, Tuttle, Kodansha, Andrews-McMeel, MQP, Mosaic, Iron Press, Writer’s Digest Books, Brooks Books, Red Moon Press, Borealis Press, Les Éditions David, and numerous other publishers. Poems are also included in dozens of broadsides. I have more than 4,000 individual poems published in hundreds of journals in at least twenty languages (most recently Turkish, Swahili, and Punjabi).

My book on Noh for sale at Kinokuniya Bookshop in Futakotamagawa, Tokyo. Photo by Emiko Miyashita.